Wire |
A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel. |
n. |
Wire |
A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire. |
n. |
Wire |
To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors. |
v. t. |
Wire |
To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads. |
v. t. |
Wire |
To snare by means of a wire or wires. |
v. t. |
Wire |
To send (a message) by telegraph. |
v. t. |
Wire |
To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream. |
v. i. |
Wire |
To send a telegraphic message. |
v. i. |
Wire-drawer |
One who draws metal into wire. |
n. |
Wire-puller |
One who pulls the wires, as of a puppet; hence, one who operates by secret means; an intriguer. |
n. |
Wire-pulling |
The act of pulling the wires, as of a puppet; hence, secret influence or management, especially in politics; intrigue. |
n. |
Wire-tailed |
Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a web or barbules. |
a. |
Wire-worker |
One who manufactures articles from wire. |
n. |
Heel |
To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it. |
v. i. |
Heel |
The hinder part of the foot; sometimes, the whole foot; -- in man or quadrupeds. |
n. |
Heel |
The hinder part of any covering for the foot, as of a shoe, sock, etc.; specif., a solid part projecting downward from the hinder part of the sole of a boot or shoe. |
n. |
Heel |
The latter or remaining part of anything; the closing or concluding part. |
n. |
Heel |
Anything regarded as like a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob. |
n. |
Heel |
The part of a thing corresponding in position to the human heel; the lower part, or part on which a thing rests |
n. |
Heel |
The after end of a ship's keel. |
n. |